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Membership Application

Please read our Beliefs & Standards before you begin. The questions below refer to it throughout, and each affirmation links to the section it comes from.

There is no way to save a part-finished application, so set aside a quiet half hour. Every question marked with an asterisk is required.

About you

So we know who to talk to while the board considers your application.

Pastor, elder, church planter, and so on.

Where we send confirmation, and where the board replies.

Your church

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US churches only.

Your interest in GRN

What is the nature of your interest in GRN? *

A church may affiliate with GRN while keeping other associations, provided they are not in direct conflict with GRN.

The 1689 London Baptist Confession

Do you subscribe to the 1689 LBCF? *

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The creeds

Which of the following creeds of the church do you affirm?

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Affirmations and denials

Each question below refers to our published standards. Use the link beside a question to read the section it refers to.

Do you/your church affirm the historically reformed distinction between law and gospel as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the tri-covenantal framework articulated in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm a confessional understanding of the Christian faith and church — and correspondingly reject pietism and revivalism as incompatible with such — as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the primacy of God's ordinary means of grace in the life of the Christian/church as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the practice of church membership as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the necessity of a plurality of elders for individual churches as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the Two Kingdoms doctrinal position (contra theonomic and reconstructionist views) as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm that Romans 7 is written by Paul as a Christian, and thereby describes the normative Christian experience, as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church reject that one must forsake sin in order to come to Christ as described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm the biblical view of gender and sexuality described in the GRN document? *

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Do you/your church affirm that the following issues (as described in the GRN document) are not ground for division or breaking fellowship: Eschatology, Views on Creation, Christian Liberty and Issues of Conscience, Bible Translation, or Political Views? *

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Before you send

Is there anything else in the GRN document that you/your church cannot affirm or have questions about? *
Do you/your church agree to notify the GRN Board if you need to modify these affirmations/denials? *

Your answers go to the GRN board and are stored on this site. They are not published and are not shared outside the board.